Genesis 9:6
whoever sheds man’s blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God has He made man.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
In Context
7And you, be fruitful and multiply, teem in the earth, and multiply in it.”
Cross References
Genesis 1:27And God creates the man in His image; in the image of God He created him, a male and a female He created them.
Genesis 5:1This [is] an account of the generations of Adam. In the day of God’s creating man, in the likeness of God He has made him;
Exodus 21:12He who strikes a man so that he has died is certainly put to death;
Leviticus 17:4and has not brought it in to the opening of the Tent of Meeting to bring an offering near to YHWH before the Dwelling Place of YHWH, blood is reckoned to that man—he has shed blood—and that man has been cut off from the midst of his people;
Numbers 35:16And if he has struck him with an instrument of iron, and he dies, he [is] a murderer: the murderer is certainly put to death.
Numbers 35:33And you do not profane the land which you [are] in, for blood profanes the land; as for the land, it is not pardoned for blood which is shed in it except by the blood of him who sheds it;
Matthew Henry on Genesis 9:2-8
Blessing of Noah and His Sons. ( b. c. 2348.) 1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. 2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. 3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. 4 But flesh with the life… Read the whole commentary →